GDLEnhanced

Asheron's Call Emulator based on the GDL project, and GDL-Classic Dereth projects

• GDL Github: https://github.com/GamesDeadLol/GDL
• GDL-Classic Github: https://github.com/bDekaru/ClassicDereth

Maintained by the GDLE Development Team

Contact us on Discord: https://discord.gg/WzGX348

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Development

• Scribble
• Chosen One
• LikeableLime
• Morosity
• fourk
• scruples
• drunkferret
• mwnciau
• fdsfsd
• Auning

Content

• shark
• Targin
• Zarto
• SeraphinX
• Crimson Mage
• Lord Traithia
• Mentel
• Zykot
• Zeus
• Shadow King Recks
• birbistheworb

Additional support

• gmriggs
• The golems
• Kloud

Installation

GDLE Setup Guide Updated January 19, 2019

Pre-requisites

This release of the server has been tested to run on Windows 10 64-bit, but may run on others.

The hardware requirements depend upon the number of players. Large memory use is intentional and should be expected: a minimum of 32GB of RAM is recommended for long-term use with many players. It is recommended that any server intending to host many players have a very fast internet connection (fiber), multi-core machine with good single-threaded performance, installed on a fast drive (SSD.)

• Asherons Call Client files from January 31, 2017 See Hashes
• MySQL/MariaDB
• Microsoft Visual Stuido

Intermediate Guide

This release is most suitable for technically comfortable users. There is an intermediate and advanced guide below.

1. Build the project in Visual Studio

2. Copy client_portal.dat and client_cell_1.dat files to the Bin\Data folder (e.g. C:\GDLEServer\Bin\Data)

3. Copy your all of your game files (all of them) to the Client folder (e.g. C:\GDLEServer\Bin\Client)

4. GDLE requires MySQL or MariaDB for database purposes. The easiest way to install them is this:

   1. Download, then install WAMP 3.0.6 64-bit

   2. Download, then install WAMP Update

      Note: Change the install folder to make sure it is the same as the first one!

   3. Download/install the MariaDB addon for WAMP

5. Make sure WAMP is running, and go to http://localhost/phpmyadmin/ in your web browser. Login to PhpMyAdmin as root with no password

6. On the left side, click "New" and create a database named GDLE

7. With the newly created GDLE database selected, click the "Import" tab on the right side, select the gdle_db.sql file located in the sqldumps folder (e.g. C:\GDLEServer\Bin\Data\sqldumps) and click "Go"

   1. Repeat for blob_update_house.sql
   2. Repeat for blob_update_weenie.sql

8. Run the GDLE.exe program

9. Click Start

10. Click Launch, or use a launcher app such GDLE Launcher or ThwargLauncher to connect to the server

11. In order for others to connect to your server, you may need to set the bind_ip value to 0.0.0.0 located in the server.cfg file

Advanced Setup

1. Clone the repository or extract all files from the ZIP to a folder such as (e.g. C:\GDLEServer)
2. Copy client_portal.dat and client_cell_1.dat files to the Bin\Data folder (e.g. C:\GDLEServer\Bin\Data)
3. Install MariaDB (10.1 tested to work well)
4. Import the gdle_db.sql file located in the sqldumps folder (e.g. C:\GDLEServer\Bin\Data\sqldumps)
   1. Repeat for blob_update_house.sql
   2. Repeat for blob_update_weenie.sql
5. Open the server.cfg file and alter it how you wish, for example you may wish to update the database port (database_port=3311)
6. Optionally, copy your game files completely to the Client folder so the "Launch" button will work in the GDLE Server UI (e.g. C:\GDLEServer\Bin\Client)
7. Run the GDLE server and click Start
8. Click Launch, or use a launcher app such GDLE Launcher or ThwargLauncher to connect to the server
9. In order for others to connect to your server, you may need to set the bind_ip value to 0.0.0.0 located in the server.cfg file

Loading Weenies from Lifestoned.org

1. Go to Lifestoned.org's World Releases
2. Download the latest release
3. Extract the contents in to the Bin\Data\json\weenies directory (e.g. C:\GDLEServer\Bin\Data\json\weenies)

File Hashes

Make sure they are FULL files from January 31, 2017

• client_portal.dat

  • MD5: 2C89662A44FCDC2A3C31FE8F6677D265
  • SHA1: 7DBB04F8CC92483467D8CC327D2892FDCD38D764
  • SHA256: DC6E500BA22E6B186DB7171E3F3345238B6444C85D798ADC85E550973B8D12E4

• client_cell_1.dat

  • MD5: 6401B73FD3842FFDB953339522A7331A
  • SHA1: 807CBD7959C2775A55F2349EBCFB44F1937901FD
  • SHA256: 6DB0ABF00FBCEED62C3F1EE842EE7C1F423D732BED77A5B7C102EE89A52AB99E

Update user with admin privilege

In the example we update the user we registered with the name boatymcboatface with admin privileges.

USE GDLE;
UPDATE accounts AS a
SET a.access = 6
WHERE username = "boatymcboatface";

Good luck, have fun.